Team

Franziska Beier

Dr. iur., LL.M.oec., attorney, certified specialist in commercial and company law

Franziska Beier studied law and business law at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Oslo. She completed her legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Naumburg, including stations at an internationally operating media group and a major international law firm. She began her career as a lawyer at the latter.

Since 2020, Franziska Beier has been supporting our Venture Capital/Private Equity/M&A Practice Group as an associate.



Steffen Fritzsche

Dr. iur., LL.M.oec.int., attorney, certified specialist in commercial and company law

After completing his studies in Halle (Saale) and London and working in the legal field in Malaysia and Australia, Steffen Fritzsche began his career as a lawyer at a law firm in Hamburg. He then joined a mid-sized law firm in Leipzig in 2009, where he primarily worked in the Venture Capital/Private Equity, M&A practice group.

For many years now, Steffen Fritzsche has mainly assisted clients in the technology and industrial sectors with financing and M&A transactions. In addition, he has extensive expertise in international commercial contracts.




Mirko Gründel

Mirko Gründel

Dr. iur., attorney, certified specialist in commercial and company law

Mirko Gründel began his legal career in 2000 at an international law firm (Leipzig, New York). Since 2002, he has worked at our firm and its predecessor firms as a founding partner.

Having lead-managed over 400 transaction in the past 20 years, he has focused on commercial and corporate law, venture capital/private equity and mergers and acquisitions.




Peter Krüger

Dr. iur., attorney

Peter Krüger was called to the bar in 1973 in Cologne, where he began his legal career at the firm of Berthmann und Scherff. In 1990 he joined the regional firm of Gaedertz Vieregge Quack Kreile (later Mayer Brown and Norton Rose) as a partner and opened its Leipzig office, which he managed until 2001. Until 2010 he was a partner at KPMG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft and managed the Leipzig office of KPMG Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft; then, from 2012 to 2015, Peter Krüger was of counsel to the firm of Mohns Tintelnot Pruggmayer Vennemann. He is the author of several professional publications in the fields of foundation law, liability law, insurance law and company law.

Since 2016 Peter Krüger has been of counsel with our firm, advising our clients on company law, banking law, and foundation and association law.


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Dirk Lange

Dirk Lange

Attorney

Following his legal studies in Mannheim, Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, Dirk Lange initially worked as an administrative court judge in Hamburg. He subsequently launched his career as an attorney at a major international law firm in 1996. He was made partner in 2000. After a spin-off, he managed the public law practice of the real estate group there from 2002 onward.

In 2015, Dirk Lange became a partner at GRUENDELPARTNER and head of the Real Estate practice group and the public law department. He advises our clients above all in real estate-related public law (zoning law, building regulations law), as well as in infrastructure planning law, immission control law, and environmental law.  A further focus is on commercial tenancy law.



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Simone Leitloff

Attorney

After her studies and legal clerkship in Leipzig, Simone Leitloff first worked as a consultant at the Chamber of Public Accountants in Berlin. She began her career as a lawyer in 2010 in a medium-sized law firm in Leipzig. Her work there focused on private building and architectural law as well as public procurement law.

Since 2020, Simone Leitloff has been supporting our firm as an associate.



Kevin Lindemann

Attorney

Following his law studies at the University of Leipzig, Kevin Lindemann completed his legal traineeship at the Regional Court Dresden. In 2017, he began working as a lawyer for a national medium-sized law firm in Saxony.

Since 2020, Kevin Lindemann has been supporting our practice group IT Law/New Media/IP as an associate of GRUENDELPARTNER.



Ramona Luckner

Tax advisor, auditor

After finishing her studies in Bochum in 2000, Ramona Luckner began her career initially as an audit assistant in a supraregional auditing and consulting firm, before working as a tax consultant from 2004 and as an auditor for two supraregional, multidisciplinary consulting firms from 2007.

In 2015, Ramona Luckner became a partner at GRUENDELPARTNER and head of the tax law practice group. She advises our clients on all issues of corporate tax law and is engaged in auditing. In addition, as a member of our Venture Capital/Private Equity, M&A practice group she handles the tax aspects of corporate transactions.


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Markus Philipp

Dr. iur., attorney

After finishing his legal studies in Leipzig and his practical legal training in Leipzig and Hamburg, Markus Philipp obtained a doctorate at Leipzig University in 2017. He started his career as an attorney in 2013 and has been supporting the Real Estate practice group of GRUENDELPARTNER as an associate since 2018 and as a salary partner since 2021.

Markus Philipp is a lecturer at Leipzig University (law on civil procedure) and regularly publishes scholarly articles, in particular related to the law on limitation of actions and the law on civil procedure.



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Jakob Ritter

attorney, certified specialist in commercial and company law

Following his legal studies, first in Dresden and then in Jena, Jakob Ritter completed his practical legal training in Leipzig.

Since 2019, he has been supporting our M&A, Venture Capital practice group as an associate of GRUENDELPARTNER.




Ralph Schmidkonz

Ralph Schmidkonz

Attorney

Ralph Schmidkonz is a founding partner of our firm. After completing his education in Munich and Atlanta, Ralph started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm in 1989. Until 2001, his main focus was on establishing his firm’s office in Leipzig. From 2002 to 2011, he was head of the press law and antitrust law group at a mid-sized law firm in Saxony.

Ralph has decades of experience in representing and advising major publishing houses on a full range of legal issues affecting their industry. As one of the best known attorneys in this field in Eastern Germany, he manages our Press Law and Antitrust Law practice group.



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Stephan Schuldt

Attorney, certified specialist in banking and capital market law

Stephan Schuldt has been a partner in our law firm since April 2019, working in the fields of data protection (GDPR), banking and capital market law as well as commercial and company law.

After finishing his legal studies in Osnabrück and Hamburg and his practical legal training in Saxony, he started his career as an attorney in a supraregional medium-sized partnership in Saxony at the beginning of 2012.

Stephan Schuldt has ample experience in advising and assisting medium-sized companies and start-ups regarding the compliance with the GDPR in their respective (innovative) fields of business. Furthermore, he advises companies, shareholders, and investors as regards banking law issues such as corporate financing.




Richard Seltmann

Attorney, certified specialist in intellectual property law

Richard Seltmann studied law at the university of Leipzig, where he also worked as a research assistant at the chair of media law. After his legal traineeship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden, he joined a supraregional commercial law firm as a lawyer in 2017 and has since been advising on IT and data protection law as well as intellectual property law.

Since 2021, Richard Seltmann has been supporting our practice group data protection and IT law as an associate.




Steffen Tietze

Steffen Tietze

Attorney, certified specialist in labour law

Steffen Tietze is a founding partner of our firm. After completing his education in Leipzig and Glasgow, he started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm in 2000. In 2002, he founded a mid-sized law firm in Saxony along with Mirko Gründel, Ralph Schmidkonz and additional partners, and from the beginning successfully managed the labour law practice.

Steffen Tietze’s work as an attorney focuses on labour and employment law. Along with Jan Schröder, he heads up our Labour and Employment practice Group.




Albrecht Tintelnot

Dr. iur., attorney

After receiving his education in Göttingen, Kiel and Guildford (Surrey, UK), Albrecht Tintelnot began his legal career in 1990 at the regional law firm of Deringer Tessin Herrman & Sedemund (later Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and moved to Leipzig in 1991. Beginning in 1995 he was a partner in the firm of Tintelnot & Partner. From 2001 to 2015 Albrecht Tintelnot was a named partner in the firm of Mohns Tintelnot Pruggmayer Vennemann. He is the author of numerous professional publications.

Albrecht Tintelnot joined our firm in 2016 as an equity partner and advises private and public companies and institutions on all aspects of business law. His practice focuses on company law and insolvency law, the privatisation of public companies, and environmental law, with a particular emphasis on water law issues.



Jan Wehner

Jan Wehner

Attorney, specialist in construction and architecture law, specialist in procurment law

Jan Wehner is a founding partner of our firm. After completing his studies in Leipzig, he began his career as an attorney at a national law firm in Saxony in 2002. He was instrumental there in establishing the Construction and Public Procurement practice groups.

Jan Wehner is head of our Public Procurement practice group and, along with Axel Banike, manages our Construction and Architecture Law practice. In addition, Jan Wehner has successfully practiced in the field of energy law for many years, advising prominent power and energy trading companies.




Udo Werner

Attorney

Udo Werner studied law in Jena and Frankfurt/Main. A graduate from Harvard University, he started his professional career with McKinsey & Company. In following years he became a member of the managing board of mid-sized stock companies and was particularly responsible for the areas of business strategy, mergers & acquisitions, human resources, law and finances. In a managing position, he very significantly shaped the reorientation of the state-owned holding company of the German state of Thuringia.

As member of the managing board of TU Dresden AG, he is responsible for central functions as well as the business of thirteen subsidiaries. Udo Werner was admitted to the bar in 2005. As Of Counsel, he advises our clients in the field of venture capital/private equity.